Definition of "dinucleotide" [dinucleotide]

• A molecule that consists of a combination of two nucleotides. (noun)

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• "Harden and Young also demonstrated that the process stops before all sugar (glucose) has been used up, but it starts again on addition of inorganic phosphate, and they suggested that hexose phosphates are formed in the early steps of fermentation. von Euler had done important work on the structure of co-zymase, shown to be nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD, earlier called DPN)."
• "Also if the repeat's flanking sequences are strongly conserved (about 10% of dinucleotide repeats have flanking sequences conserved throughout mammals) those mRNAs nearly always encode proteins critical to central nervous system development."
• "However, for example, dinucleotide simple repeats are frequently associated with membrane-targeted proteins."